On 8/16/26 1:24 AM, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> On Sun, 2026-08-16 at 03:23 +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>> Aren't we done with this damn tool from a kernel perspective?? Thought,the
>> link
>> could be removed.
>
> This would finalize (fix?) this commit 8e9fa2f21151 (oprofiled version
> output line removed from the list)
>
> Maybe add some reasoning (To reduce it's OS jitter or because it's a leftover
> link)
>
> And if it's the way to handle translations remove:
> Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst:-
> <https://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
> Documentation/translations/pt_BR/process/changes.rst:-
> <https://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
>
> I have no clue about the technical side, that's why I'm asking:
> Can this be removed aswell?
> arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c:atomic_t nmi_active = ATOMIC_INIT(0); /*
> oprofile uses this */
It looks like nmi_active is used in that source file regardless of
oprofile. I'd say No.
Other than the comment itself, which can be deleted if oprofile support
is going (gone) away.
>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ----
>> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> index 0aa232b117b5..336c07190c9b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> @@ -556,10 +556,6 @@ Ip-route2
>>
>> - <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/>
>>
>> -OProfile
>> ---------
>> -
>> -- <https://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
>>
>> Kernel documentation
>> ********************
>> --
>> 2.54.0
>>
>
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~Randy
